plastic_rainbow

glad to have you back!!

Ahaha, Ryutaro is one of my biggest influences! I had my hair cut like him back in high school lol. That was the first time I cut my hair short and almost everybody thought I was a guy. xD I stuck with the hairstyle for pretty long because it felt comfortable and seemed to fit my personality well. My hair looks a bit different now, it's still short tho, but whenever I see a photo of Ryutaro I'm always like okay time to have my hair like him again. xD He is honestly like my idol, I have such high respect for him.... Wow, you picked a lot of my favorites! I wasn't lying when I said I had a ton of favorites, haha. I don't listen to 「3月5日」 as much as I'd like to, but damn it's good and one of the heavier songs of theirs, and knowing them they have very few heavy songs. Sanatorium was one of the songs I kinda forgot about when I grew out of vk and stopped listening to pura for a while. But when I listened to it again 1-2 years ago it hit so close to home. It seemed to express what I was going through at the time and hearing Ryutaro's breathing at the end just kinda killed me. It's such a depressing song, but at the same time helped me in so many ways. I love Kuuchuu Buranko~ I really liked the pv and miss all their circus aesthetics. Ahh, I love Ame ni Utaeba and listened to it quite a bit back then. It's one of those songs that just kinda feels sad and cold. I love anything rainy-themed Pura too and I tend to associate them with rain a lot. They have so many songs about them. Anyway, love the guitars in this too. Oh, you don't have to worry about posting links/videos in hidden content. That's just a courtesy for preventing long loading pages or long scrolling, although I guess it's still recommended that you do. You can do so by clicking on the little "eye" icon on the text editor bar and the rest should be self explanatory. Here's a screenshot if you need:

hoping this will sound good i see a lot of potential in them

Awww man, Dona Dona was such a good album and 1999 was one of my favorites from it too! I like how soft the song feels, but the lyrics are rather bitter and there's a slight tinge of pain from Ryutaro's singing. For some reason Planetarium gets buried in the back and I seem to forget that it exists until it comes up on shuffle. Dx It's such a good song though. I need to give it more listens~! Really love the way Ryutaro sings here.

It's been a little too quiet here! Since this year marks the 20th anniversary of Plastic Tree's major debut let's share and talk about all of our favorite songs! With what they've been doing to commemorate their anniversary, such as performing older songs and basically recreating old school pura I'm sure all of our memories are overflowing like crazy, especially for longer-termed fans. So let's reflect back and share a few favorites. What do the songs mean to you and were there any special memories attached to them? Or maybe it was the first pura song you fell in love with? Fangirl all you want. Since they have a huge discography maybe you can shed some light on a few songs as well. I have a ton of favorites and will probably keep on posting here, but here's a few to start with: 絶望の丘 (Zetsubou no Oka) - This was probably the first song of theirs I fell in love with. I just really loved the bass lines and decided that I'd learn it someday so I listened to the hell out of it. (still haven't learned it but oh well...) And of course, I love Ryutaro's sweet child-like voice. ぬけがら (Nukegara) - Another one of my early favorites. The chorus really got me and reading the lyrics made my heart ache. In the chorus the lines say "If these aren’t your true feelings, then don’t do any of these things anymore". Just a bittersweet song about a sad breakup. There's a neat guitar solo from Akira too. 藍より青く (Ai Yori Aoku) - This one is a B-side from their single 真っ赤な糸 (Makka na Ito) and was one of my first songs. It gives me all those nostalgic summer feels and brings me back to those times when I first got into Plastic Tree (and vk in general). The guitars are relaxing and it's very nice to listen to. 最終電車 (Saishuu Densha) - I loved this song so much back then I wanted to animate an mv for it lol. And I actually gave an attempt and made a tiny gif (with my noob animation skills) back in 2010. xD.....ahh those times when I had too much time on my hands lol. The song gives off a very bittersweet feeling and I imagined that the story would be illustrated in a cute chibi look with a somber night setting. Also, I drew Ryutaro from one of my favorite photoshoots of him. Wonder if anyone here would recognize it.....? I guess it's a little hard to tell though. Okay, that's enough fangirling from me. I'll leave room for you guys to share your favorites~ ^^

okay i need to stop listening to all these small bands and check up on the bigger bands once in a while *looks at the ginormous discography* .............okay never mind

Btw, it has been revealed that the goods that will come along with the limited edition are: T-shirt Mini tote bag Post card Clear file 172 page book with lyrics and comments about their works (I AM PRE-ORDERING THIS RIGHT NOW)

one of my favorite artists collaborated with THE NOVEMBERS and designed their new merch, this is so cool :DDD

upvote please~ https://www.last.fm/music/Dezert/+images/bc1cf1c16fda59b46c17650fabadae89 https://www.last.fm/music/TK+from+凛として時雨/+images/6fabb53ca44295a24e7a75d549c0433a

and each one will be sold at 9 different lives, apparently. so basically you have to attend them all to get them all lol they must be desperate

thank you for the explanation hiroki! gonna refer to that drama's english title and change the line to "love quotient" instead.

well, after trying to look for more info on HASAMI Group i found more noise/lo-fi goodness! LOWPOP LTD. are more alternative rock but i love this slower-paced song of theirs. don't think i need to say it, but expect some lo-fi production. HYPER LACK + REPACKED by LOWPOP LTD. this screamo-like demo of theirs is pretty neat too. these guys are like downtempo noise rock and sound really good. this might be for you @CAT5?

^i have no idea. i just went for the literal translation because i didn't quite understand what it meant......

for a request~ (first half of the video) Lyrics: Ao Sakurai Music: Ao Sakurai Kanji source: jpopasia Kanji: 初恋中毒 Romaji: Hatsukoi chuudoku English: First Love Poisoning Romanization and translation done by me. Corrections and suggestions are much welcomed~ Enjoy! ^^

i honestly have no idea what i'd be listening to because japanese music was where everything began for me. if i never listened to any japanese music i probably wouldn't even have become such a music fanatic since i was mostly exposed to all that american pop stuff like britney spears, backstreet boys, and nsync..........yikes!! although i guess i would have explored a bit of kpop since i listened to some of the older 90s stuff, or otherwise maybe some other asian music. have no idea if i'd even be into rock/heavy music like i am now tho.....i don't even want to imagine

if you still haven't checked these guys out from the june recs do yourself a favor and listen to them now! i haven't heard such good j-indie in years and i'm honestly excited for these guys. they're bringing the j-indie roots back! for those who like some outrageously weird but good stuff, check these guys out. they're experimental and bleep bloopy with some fuzzy noises and strange-to-playful pianos. as far as i know, they self-produce all their music and upload them on their webpage only, so really underground stuff! a lot of their style and aesthetics come from experimental, lo-fi films and all those old 80s melancholic feels. my favorite of theirs so far. it's less weird and more melancholic capturing the very essence of youth in those lonely and bleak summer days.

love the new look!!! futabaaaaaa <33

damn, hope somebody gets a hold of this because their last release was pretty good

purchased from @togz , thanks again! ^^ mah bois <3333 kannivalism - ホシの夜 kannivalism - 鬱病ロッカー (book) baroque - 我伐道 SINCE1889 - [Gaula] Crazy★shampoo - The place in which I am now. (and comment dvd) Crazy★shampoo - LOVE SONG

i love this song more than the anime itself but maybe i need a second viewing cuz everything kinda went over my head.....

been listening to osts of noir, elfen lied, serial experiments lain, and tsukihime and man, so many of the older anime had such GOOD osts. there just ain't enough dark and psychological anime out there anymore (that's newer) with sad strings and pianos or dark ambient vibes. or am i not watching the right stuff.....?

forgot to mention that i sometimes upload new artist photos too. i didn't really do it back then probably cuz there were plenty of users who did it so i didn't care. but now that there are less users it kinda feels like a job for me to upload them AND to make sure that they fit the stupid image grid cuz it really annoys me when people just upload it without cropping/fixing so that you only see like two of the members. yeah, last.fm has completely taken over me HELP.